Blue Force Gear Quote of the Day: The Latest Bright Idea to Sell Gun Control

“It’s difficult to imagine her sitting in front of a congressional hearing or even meeting privately with lawmakers about the issues — the optics just wouldn’t be advantageous for the politicians in question — but what if we saw her out on the streets during BLM protests? What if she had more than one lunch with the moms of victims and found out what they needed from her,

beyond photo ops? What if she gave her millions of followers a list of the U.S. senators and representatives taking money from the NRA and got her fans to the polls in November? She might turn out to be an untapped resource of voter mobilization. Kim Kardashian might turn out to be the voice gun control needs.” – Sabrina Rohas Weiss in Kim Kardashian Is Taking On A New Role: Gun Violence Activist [via refinery29.com]

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If you want to appeal to the most ignorant bottom-feeders among us, you call on Kim Kardashian, an empty headed media whore devoid of talent or morals. I guess when you can’t argue the facts, a donkey-sized ass will have to do.

Speaking of media whores devoid of talent or morals, I remember a few years back when JC Penney was on the economic ropes and their new CEO decided it would be a brilliant marketing and PC move to hire Ellen Degeneris as their spokesperson, having heard that she had some 3 million “devoted” fans (and she was gay).

It has never been determined how many of those 3 million fans ever changed their shopping habits to patronize (pun intended) JC Penney, but it would seem that the scheme turned many more than 3 million additional shoppers away since the campaign did not last very long and certainly did not improve Penney’s fiscal status.

I submit that anti-2A organizations are likely to shoot themselves in the foot with these sorts of ridiculous celebrity campaigns and we should not oppose them, except, perhaps, with REAL celebrities of our own who actually know what they’re talking about and aren’t just touchy-feely emoticons.

As occasionally amusing as Leary can be, I do find it rather ironic that a guy who’s entire schtick is at best a pastiche, and at worst just outright theft, of everyone from Bill Hicks to Louis CK, is commenting on “talent”. Other than, “Thank god you people have no idea what a talentless asshole I am”.

There’s a great Tough Crowd where Giraldo and Leary really looked like they were gonna throw down, because Leary was totally unprepared, and Giraldo called him out on it. It’s on the youtubes for those interested.

They are not famous for any particular reason. Their family came into recognition when the late Robert Kardashian was part of the team that successfully defended OJ. So I guess that’s why the family is famous: dead attorney father defended OJ in a sensational Hollywood trial. And now, in 2016, to honor their father’s memory, the Kardashian children occasionally release sex tapes, cavort with insufferable douche bags and destroy the morals of the young women (and even men) of the country.

I agree. The Kardashians are just what Gun Control needs: A fake, out of touch with reality, useless to society spokesperson, that only appeals to people to young to vote. Sounds like a perfect representative of the Anti-gun crowd.

That’s the problem, they’re too young to vote NOW, but in 3, 5, 10 years? We’re in trouble.

Most pro-2A supporters are aging and we’re not replacing our ranks. How many grandfathers take their grandkids hunting? How many dads take their sons and daughters shooting, or teach them about guns? I’d argue that’s how most develop a love for guns (it’s how I did), they see the importance guns have in the lives of others. They learn how guns have turned the tides of history and built nations. Lastly, when that grandparent/parent passes on they’re gifted a gun, a gun that means more to them than monetary value alone, a gun that very well may have fed or protected their family. How often does that happen anymore?

Yeah, we can make our voices heard now, even if they’re seldom listened to, but what about the future? We’re getting to age where our opinion won’t matter, will be brushed off by the younger know-it-all types (to be fair this happens with everything) and we’ll be a relic of a time long gone.

Only downside I see to the pro-2A group is we’re playing the short-game. The people that want to take our rights don’t take it all at once, they take it piece by piece and they’re playing the game for the long-haul. They’re winning the future generations point blank. It doesn’t matter to them how long it takes, only that it happens, and it seems to be heading that direction.

Blake, I’m not sure where you are living, but as a general rule, we are attracting new kids all the time.

I will grant that it’s not as ‘just normal’ as it used to be. Unless you’re in the serious boonies these days, guns aren’t just an everyday, mainstream thing. But, they are coming around. Video games don’t always hurt – many of my 20-something acquaints are recently into the shooting sports – and are vehemently pro 2A.

If you get a chance to interact with young people, you can help swell our ranks. Over the last few decades, I’ve taken dozens of people to the range for the first time, most of whom now shoot, own firearms, and know the importance of the 2A.

So don’t sit on the bench. IF you have the opportunity, try to do something to really help the children. They’re the ones who face a likelihood of a genuinely oppressive regime taking over.

Guys guys…. its okay… every time she posts something pro gun control, her sister post pictures of herself shooting at the range. We need her to be a pro gun protection activist.
Kardashian vs Kardashian. They will cancel each other out. Then kims special ed husband will say some stupid sh!t and we got it in the bag.
On a side note i really wish he would stop telling people hes from chicago. Its bad enough here as it is.

Traveling across the country, passing through Wyoming, stopped at Walmart noting two families of men and boys getting hunting licenses. Fire up TTAG for me daily dose and read Kim in play to help gun grabbers…yeah thats the ticket. Always enjoy a morning chuckle.

She is dumb as a post and as disconnected from everyday life as you can be. She is also married to a real overhyped racist jackass. Never the less she is a beautiful woman. I mean damn, that is hard to dispute if I am honest.

Thankfully, her fans are too dumb to find their way to a polling station so I’m not too worried about this gaining traction. I’ll file it in the same folder as “College freshman comes home for Thanksgiving dinner and lectures family on why she’s now a vegan.”

If a woman’s b**bs on prominent display cannot convince me to purchase a hamburger, or a new car, or a specific brand of beer, or any of the other myriad consumer products that are promoted by female human t*ts, would someone explain to me how those same mammaries accompanied by a HUGE a** and inflated lips are going to convince me in some magical way that g*ns are bad, particularly when they are affixed firmly to a vapid person without any discernible intellect or knowledge in the field?

There are two problems with the hypothesis that she’s good for gun control.

First, is what I call the “Kardashian Koma” which basically prevents her fans from doing anything useful. Instead they watch her twitter feed for the next nude selfie she puts out.

Secondly, gun control doesn’t do well with younger folks. A recent poll of ladies 18-24 found that reproductive rights and access to firearms for self defense tied as the #1 issues for those girls. Now that’s just one poll and it could be wrong, however gun control doesn’t poll well with millennials in general. They’re far more interested in jobs and the cost of college than they are in gun control.

This is yet another morally reprehensible step by Gun Kontrol, exploiting a mentally deficient youngish woman for her physical appearance, most of which is constantly on display everywhere anyway. If they had any sense of shame this idea would not go beyond a late night drunken brain storming session. To pursue this concept as an active policy demonstrates the desperate lengths they are prepared to go to. Bet they won’t let her open her mouth. Too much stupid waiting to come out.

Why y’all are taking the misogynistic route to discount other views is simply not surprising. The Republican standard bearer certainly takes the same route. Distracting from the core issue is the standard operating procedure. Solutions or ideas to make all sides comfortable seem so foreign to both sides. So sad

I don’t think she would publicly side with gun control because both of her parents are declared conservatives. Not to say she would side against it either. I think she is fine with just raking in cash for being herself, rather standing behind something that requires a great deal of effort and doesn’t really have much cash returns.